Published: November 12, 2007 | Updated: November 13, 2008
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Overview
The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) series provides guidance for Microsoft infrastructure products. The series is a collection of documents that leads the reader through a sequence of core decision points to design an infrastructure for Microsoft products. It also provides a means to validate design decisions with the business to ensure that the solution meets the requirements for both business and infrastructure stakeholders.
The IPD documents are designed to be used by the following IT personnel:
- Infrastructure planners and architects who have a firm operational grasp of the technology.
- Partners and consultants who design infrastructure solutions.
- Business managers who want to understand how the technology decisions being made both support and affect the business.
Guidance
Newly Released! Check out the latest Infrastructure Planning and Design guides:
- Exchange Online—Evaluating Software-plus-Services
This guide provides a clear comparison of e-mail technologies across on-premises, standard hosting, and dedicated hosting scenarios. Use the guide as a framework for evaluating the technical feasibility of Microsoft Exchange Online. The guide provides an overall scoring assessment for each option, identifying key mail services and requirements for your organization. It can help you understand the impact of adopting software-plus-services, weigh the importance of each topic to your organization, and learn which offering will serve you best. Download this guide now.
- Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 for R2
This guide enables you to quickly select which Configuration Manager features your organization needs in order to meet business requirements. It walks you through the process of determining which site roles are required in order to support those features, making this a less daunting task. The guide drives you through Configuration Manager infrastructure design decisions in a logical, sequential order. It accelerates the infrastructure design process by leveraging best practice guidance from the product group and subject matter experts. Using this guide can help you make the best decisions for successfully optimizing your infrastructure to best meet business requirements. Download this guide now.
- Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5
This guide describes the latest release of Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V). App-V, formerly SoftGrid, enables organizations to respond to the challenge of managing applications by implementing application virtualization. Take advantage of new features in App-V 4.5 such as streaming servers and support for Internet-based clients. This IPD guide takes you step by step through the process of planning your application virtualization infrastructure. Download this guide now.
Series Introduction
A complete introduction to the Infrastructure Planning and Design series, including information on the background and document structure of IPD. Download the introduction now.
Internet Information Services 7.0
This guide provides a consistent structure for addressing the decisions and activities critical to the successful implementation of the Microsoft® Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 infrastructure. Download this guide now.
Selecting the Right NAP Architecture
The objective of this guide is to provide a consistent structure for addressing the decisions and activities most critical to the successful implementation of the Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP) infrastructure. Download this guide now.
Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology
The objective of this guide is to enable the reader to rapidly and accurately select which Microsoft virtualization technology or technologies to use for specific scenarios. Download this guide now.
System Center Operations Manager 2007
This guide leads the reader through the process of planning a System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 infrastructure. Download this guide now.
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
The goal of this guide is to help project teams gather information, make decisions, choose options, and complete the tasks required to create and design a Virtual Machine Manager infrastructure. Download this guide now.
Microsoft Server Virtualization
This guide leads the reader step by step through the process of planning server virtualization environments. Download this guide now.
Windows Deployment Services
The purpose of this guide is to present the infrastructure planning process for Windows Deployment Services by providing a clear and concise workflow of the decisions and tasks required. Download this guide now.
Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services
This guide is intended to assist designers in the decision-making process by providing a clear and concise path for designing the Active Directory infrastructure. Download this guide now.
Windows Server 2008 File Services
This guide provides the basic building blocks upon which many other infrastructure services are based. Enjoy peace of mind in knowing that all critical phases of the plan are included, allowing you to establish a good foundation for future expansion. Download this guide now.
Windows Server 2008 Print Services
The goal of this guide is to enable you to strategically plan your print infrastructure. By analyzing your printing needs, you will be able to design print servers with sufficient memory and spooler capacity. Efficiently designing printer pools can help you avoid problems before they begin, erase performance bottlenecks, and serve your customers more reliably. Download this guide now.
Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services
This guide leads the reader step by step through the process of planning a Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services infrastructure. Download this guide now.
Downloads
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Join the Beta
Additional Infrastructure Planning and Design series guides are available as beta releases on the Connect Web site. They are open beta downloads. See below for instructions on how to access the beta guides.
To join the Infrastructure Planning and Design Beta, follow these steps:
- Visit the Microsoft Connect Web site at https://connect.microsoft.com/InvitationUse.aspx?ProgramID=1587&InvitationID=IPDT-F4XM-VH6T&SiteID=14.
- Sign in using a valid Windows Live ID to continue to the Invitations page.
- Scroll down to Infrastructure Planning and Design.
If you have not previously registered with Microsoft Connect, you might be required to register before continuing with the invitation process.
If the link in step 1 does not work for you, copy the link and paste it into the Web browser address bar.
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